The Hackney-based independent publisher Influx Press is tonight, Tuesday 20 March, announced as the winner of the 2018 Republic  of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses – for publishing Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams.

The fourth annual MONOCLE Quality of Life Conference will be taking place in Zürich. From Thursday 28 to Saturday 30 June, the global media brand will bring entrepreneurs, architects, urbanists, designers and the media to Switzerland for three days of debate, conversation, networking and top hospitality.

Linda Grant and Tony White among UK authors to appear alongside some of Estonia’s finest writers at weekend celebration hosted by Rosie Goldsmith and Bhavit Mehta

On Friday 16th March, the Lithuanian Culture Institute celebrates the annual Day of the Book Smugglers for the first time in London by sending a troupe of modern-day smugglers with Lithuanian literature to key cultural institutions across the city.

With one month to go until London Book & Screen Week (9-15 April), the festival has today unveiled a Christie themed cream tea amongst its final line-up for 2018, on board a classic Routemaster bus, the one-off tour will take in sights from Christie’s London.

Congratulations to Text Publishing and Wu Ming-Yi, whose book The Stolen Bicycle has been longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. The Man Booker International Prize celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world.

“As soon as I started reading, I knew I had chanced upon something very special. I was completely hooked by a book which is a comedy, a spy story, and a riveting piece of historical investigation that seamlessly integrates these genres… A book that readers will race through but never forget.” Misha Glenny, Author of McMafia

The UK’s first dedicated festival of Muslim culture, literature and ideas, MFest, will take place at the British Library, in central London, on 27-29 April 2018. Elif Shafak, Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic and Kamila Shamsie among highlights of the 2018 programme